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But Hollywood producers have shareholders who expect a return on the money they invest. Ironically, reality TV shows -- like Silicon Valley -- lower the cost since real people don't get paid as much as actors, if they get paid at all. And writers do much less writing than for scripted shows.

But the thing that would really tip Silicon Valley to appreciate what Hollywood is trying to do would be if Silicon Valley started to produce its own content. And in 2012, NPR reported, Google started to spend money for Hollywood and New York writers and producers to create YouTube channels.

If Google decides that the cost of producing original content is so high that it needs to be compensated for it by getting people to pay directly -- rather than through advertising -- then it might move closer to Hollywood's position.

But if Google finds that additional advertising more than offsets the cost of producing original content, it is likely that the business model gap between Silicon Valley and Hollywood will persist.

And ultimately, the cultural differences between Hollywood and Silicon Valley remains an unbridgeable chasm -- despite Randi Zuckerberg's effort to bridge the two.